Posted on 05/25/2008 3:48:35 AM PDT by markomalley
Nature is cruel. People, remarkably less so.
I would never revel in being cruel to any animal. Snapping a chicken’s neck is extremely humane. You obviously have never watched a farmer do the procedure I mentioned. It’s fast and painless. Slaughter houses are cruel. Most farmers that raise their own food are much more humane than slaughter houses. Personally, I can’t kill anything, even for food, but I have no aversion to raising animals for food. I can cook it and eat it but somebody else has to do the killing.
Yeah, I’ll check it out. I am always open to new ways of fixing a kill.
How about crowding 10s of thousands of chickens into an enclosed space with no natural light and no fresh air, feeding them hormones, supplements, and animal byproducts that are not even part of their natural diet, subjecting them to being de-beaked so they don't cannibalize each other (chickens kept naturally in an open air farm do not do this) because they are overcrowded and are not getting the nutrition they need from the slop they are fed.
Instead of slitting their throats like I do which allows them to bleed out, factory chickens are electrocuted, and their blood is retained. I shouldn't have to tell you about the possibility of fluid borne pathogens. Which will become apparent to you in the next paragraph.
After culling and eviscerating factory chickens are subjected to a water bath to bring their body temperature down. The problem with tis is that countless hundreds of chickens have been through the same bath before, and whatever is left of their viscera and its contents (feces, urea, blood, bile) washes out in the bath contaminating all of the other chickens. Then to bring them "up" to USDA standards they are subjected to as many as 40 (yeah forty) chlorine baths to remove the contaminants, what is finally packaged and sold to you and in the stores is as far removed from chicken as the chicken is from the housefly.
There is nothing cruel about allowing a chicken to exist on a natural diet, and then killing and processing them for the dinner table. People today are so soft, and have been so sanitized from reality that they would starve in a room full of food, because they are too damn timid to take the proper measures for their own survival, and that of their families.
The stupidity that people revel in, it's just mind boggling
Every single pathogen to which you so romantically describe will be killed in the process of thorough cooking.
They’re food, not companion animals.
Thanks for the info. Gonna have to try it with chickens, or the next time I am out for birds.
Maybe so, but I won’t take the chance.
There’s chicken, and then there’s chicken sh*t. The Principal is both.
It might be interesting to see what would happen if enough people emailed and wrote Principal Chicken Sh*t about the dangers of caving in to PETA and other such animal rights whacko groups.
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